Trackside with Erik and Mike, Vol. 33: June 20, 2005

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Trackside with Erik and Mike, Vol. 33: June 20, 2005

  • This week's installment of Trackside with Erik and Mike is now live within the Railroading section on the Trains.com home page. Please read this week's column and then vote for your favorite photo below. Click here to read Trackside with Erik and Mike Vol. 33.
    Erik Bergstrom
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  • QUOTE: Originally posted by THE_WEEZ

    Erics photo rocks! I love Cp and intermodels


    [#ditto]
  • HIS picture is the coolest with two eingines.
  • Mike - Trains and Baseball (Miller Park)
  • Don't know if you will see this as the forum is officially closed. I suppose I could wait for the next one.
    Thanks for your comments about various ideas of composition. The truth is, the merits of any photograph are in the "eye of the beholder". Unless you are trying to make a living as a photographer, it doesn't matter what others think of your work. The diversity of opinions is great. I might not like what someone says about a particular photo, but I will never complain about that. Thats what I like about this forum, there are no flamers, just honest opinions. Keep up the good work & I look forward to the next set of photos.
    Larry in Wauwatosa
  • had to agree with kicksvette, Mike's photo (or do we call it a "digital" now?) was too much scene and too little railroad. Altho a common 3/4 view, Erik's digital has some excitement with the big 'ol GE bearing down on the digitaler. It even looks like the stacks are trying to overtake the head end power.
  • Went with Mike's this week. The change in backround was definitly needed.

    Are you guys ever going to get together again so people can judge upon creativity/photographic skills. It's a shame that people vote based on what is in the consist rather than how the photo was executed. How about some more phototography mini-lessons?

    The photographic work is still great, keep up the good work.
    [swg]
  • being a photogragher my self, and my love for trains mikes photo was shot with the wrong lens. this photo should have been shot with a 200mm lens or bigger, this would have brought in the train in a little closer and would have less back groound. this why eriks photo was a better picture the train filled the frame and had some back ground.. the background on mikes was of to me little interset.
  • Both photos are good.....because of each use of focal length. Mike's shot is great as a wide angle, it lets you see the parallel lines of the freeway and the length of the river.
    A cool reflection would have been neat, but you can't always get everything.
    Erik's shot is "made" by the 300 mm. It compresses that engine at the same time compressing that huge load of containers. If not for that, it would be another routine shot from an all too familiar place. Erik gets the vote, but it's close.
    Mike, there are several areas around Grand Avenue for interesting shots, I like the one you picked.
    Regards
    Larry
    Wauwatosa
  • I like Mike's better...the SD45 is certainly a pleasant sight. I also liked the location and the angle it was shot from...certainly not a normal picture to me.
  • Ever think about how almost any picture of exactly the same scene becomes a one of a kind with the swirling smoke of a steam engine on the point.??? The smoke when drifting down among the cars also changes the appearance of the train the steamer is pulling,thereby creating another one of a kind.I like diesels simply because there are more of them in a great variety of colour schemes.A diesel unit,it changes very little ,a diesel unit on the point is a diesel unit on the point.But I love railroading.I am 71 years old and have 71 years of railroading because I was born in a C N Station and worked for the C N for 40 years and then kept right up on railroading ever since retirementAmen
  • i went with mike's because of the double heading of 2 locos, as well as te reflection.
    Colin from prr.railfan.net
  • A great shot of yet another single powered hot shot,in which the dispatcher is most likely barking over the radio to hurry up,while the loco is screaming in the back ground.Good work Erik catching the mainlines up to their same old.
  • To be perfectly honest, Erik, it's getting a bit monotonous seeing the same angle on the same hill, and usually the same type of train. And really, how often do you see a WC SD45 and a UP SD70 on the same train?
  • Both shots are terrific but I went with Mike's because I'd been hoping for something more urban lately. The contrast between the horizontal train and the vertical domination of the "bulbous" baseball park was ironic and fun.